Live octopus? Animal activists want it off the menu - Los Angeles Times

Live octopus? Animal activists want it off the menuLos Angeles Times
Writhing octopus, prawns and other seafood have been plated at Los Angeles restaurants for many years. The Japanese and Korean dishes are openly advertised, reviewed by food critics and patrons, and posted on YouTube. Animal rights activists say it's ...

Live octopus? Animal activists want it off the menuPhys.Org
Animal rights activists say it's time to take the dish off the table. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals this week released video of squirming octopus tentacles and twitching shrimp heads served up at Korean restaurants in Los Angeles and New ...

Activists Want to Stop the Practice of Eating Live OctopusMunchies_ Food by VICE
Back in 2014, Jennifer Mather, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta and author of numerous studies on octopus and cephalopod sentience, including “Cephalopod consciousness: Behavioral evidence” and “Ethics and ...

Live octopus as cuisine isn't a delicacy — it's an outrageLos Angeles Times
To the editor: Of course an octopus is capable of suffering. And of course, as biologist and psychologist Jennifer Mather points out, “this suffering is almost certainly prolonged when the animal is deliberately kept alive” during such butchery. (“Live ...